What is in the hot dogs we eat?

A forensic study published in the annals of diagnostic pathology found bone, blood vessels,

nerves, cartilage, and skin.

But the kicker was that the amount of actual meat in the hot dog was less than 10%.

But of course the component of hot dogs we should most care about is the cancer risk,

and it contributes to colorectal cancer, the number one cancer killer of non-smokers.

That's why the prestigious World Cancer Research Fund and American Institute for Cancer Research

recommended their landmark report that people simply avoid processed meat.

The National Cattlemen's Beef Association chided the expert report as bad advice, saying

that a different report found no link between meat and cancer, a report that was, in their words, comprehensive by

independent scientists.

How could the World Cancer Research Fund research report come to such a different conclusion

as perplexing the Beef Association wrote?

But I found that so-called independent, comprehensive review the beef industry was referring

to, and be perplexed, no more.

I was on it like brown on rice.

Let's compare.

The report funded by a leading nonprofit cancer research organization took nine independent teams of

about 200 scientists covering nearly 7,000 studies compiled by some of the top cancer researchers

in the world and overseen by the likes of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the

United Nations and the World Health Organization, producing a report more than 500 pages long.

On the other hand, this one was two and a half pages, written by a for-profit

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